Not only Bitcoin. This is the drawback of the whole cryptocurrency environment. Although once the price of cryptos will be more or less stable, small businesses an importers can benefit from it. Especially as speaking of the tourist-oriented sector. 

And free marketing campaign as well for both. Not to mention the fact, that it could be a thing which most of the smartphones miss nowadays - real innovations. Of course, Samsung would not be the first one to implement the function, but as Apple does, make someone's innovation mainstream.

Czy zapewniają wolność i swobodę dla użytkowników? Tak.
Czy ktoś o złej woli może je wykorzystywać jako formę płatności? Owszem.
Czy władze chcą śledzić transakcje? Owszem. Już to robią z transakcjami walut tradycyjnych. Ba, mamy tendencję do tego, by wycofywać płatności gotówką, bo jest je ciężej wytropić niż płatność kartą czy przelewem. Tłumaczenie oficjalne - gdyż istnieje ryzyko finansowania terroryzmu w sposób niewykrywalny.

Dlatego też, w ramach wprowadzania regulacji dotyczących kryptowalut władze generalnie będą starały się sukcesywnie zwalczać prywatne krypto.
W Japonii na ten przykład od czasu wprowadzenia obowiązkowych licencji dla kantorów kryptowalut już jest wymagane, by nie było w ofercie kantoru prywatnych krypto. 

Hodling means that you do not only store your cryptocurrency but as well use it and promote it.
Those who just keep the crypto for the purpose of making money out of it are simply investors.
And the lower the trading volume, the easier it is for each cryptocurrency to be subject to the pump and dump, what is even more harmful to cryptocurrencies in general.

At some cycles price of BTC had been going down by 90% from the peak price. We are still away from that level.

That's what cryptocurrency exchanges recommend to do.
And full KYC is already required for cryptocurrency exchanges which allow, just like Linkkoin, to buy cryptos with Visa/Mastercard. This is a requirement imposed upon us.

This false marketing of shady ICOs was one of the reasons, why companies such as Alphabet (owner of google) introduced a ban on cryptocurrencies advertising in general.

Cryptocurrencies with their blockchain, as well as many wallets will benefit from quantum computing. As well, blockchain will be as common as the internet is today. Used literally everywhere for almost all types of data processing. Or even validating the voting results.

Next thing will be the clear division of cryptocurrencies in those which are just a tool for some function - with a stable price, those for pure speculation etc.

Economy and history show us, that each thing you can trade, including Bitcoin, is subject to cycles of trends. After uptrends we always see downtrends. If we check previous cycles of BTC, it has survived much worse drops. Each time, HODLing was proven to be an effective and profitable strategy.

Although right now Bitcoin is LEAST volatile in more than a year period, the volatility of it is still problematic for being used as a real currency. When you are operating a business, in many cases your contractual relations require you to sign a contract for whole next year, or even 2-3 of them, with prices which are usually fixed for that period. This is where on this time Bitcoin cannot work properly yet.

If you follow the cycles of Bitcoin price, you can see the pattern repeating over and over again. What we need are patience and international regulatory standards for cryptocurrencies. At this moment in many parts of the world whole cryptocurrency environment operates in a legal vacuum or the licenses are not recognized abroad, what is discouraging many potential investors from putting their money into Bitcoin.

For years most of the cryptocurrency developers claim their coins/tokens will replace Bitcoin.
So far none did and it cannot be foreseeable. Although already we have many cryptocurrencies which beat BTC in many fields:
- the speed and price of transfers (XRP)
- functionality (ETH)
- privacy (XMR)
- level of protection (QRL, claiming to be quantum-hack resistant)

Yet none of the replaced BTC and will be unlikely to do so, because even most ground-breaking solutions simply cannot replace the reputation of Bitcoin. When you say cryptocurrency, most of the people first think of Bitcoin.
And as well, many of the solutions from different blockchains can be implemented in the future forks of BTC, as it is not a revolution, but evolution now.

The blockchain is a milestone in technological progress. As important to mankind as an invention of the first aeroplane.

HODLing had proven to work several times by now. The only difference is that each bottom to peak cycle is longer than the previous one. The previous bear market lasted for almost 2 years. So then it is reasonable to expect that we still have time to buy BTC with low price. Excellent condition if you cannot afford to buy Bitcoin online even with small transactions like for $50-100 each paycheck.

More like we will have clear division between investment cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and those which are really working as digital currencies. But in 10 years for sure most of the cryptocurrencies with their blockchains will use some aspects of protection from quantum computer hacks.

This is technically doable under one condition - whales would need to be willing to do so. Right now the market is definitely in stage "buy low", and prices are very stable for the last couple of days.

Please remember that media love to play on emotions. In 2017 they boosted the hype to harmful levels, which deceived many people who bought BTC near the peak. Then in 2018, they started to declare BTC as dead, what strongly contributed to the panic on the market and as well - the ban on cryptocurrency advertising, which is harmful to whole cryptocurrency and blockchain community.

And if you check some news, in 3 (or even less) days on the same website you will be able to see that they post mutually excluding predictions. This is why we should be sceptical, and avoid purchasing cryptocurrencies only because some whale stated that price of Bitcoin will reach $100 000 in 3 months.

This is why you should never ever deal with files from unreliable sources or visit strange websites.
As well using hardware wallets is a reasonable thing to do.

The smaller the market, the more influence and less risk of whales have. Yet unless we have some global regulation standard, many institutions will either opt out or even make problems for you as retail.

We should bear in mind as well, that trading cryptocurrencies, due to trading volume has another factor - thinking what whales are about to do right now if we are speaking of short term trades. In the last 10 days we could see a number of attempts of BTC to make a strong move, all of them failed.